Quadriplegic rapist to be freed from Calif. prison

The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/ZGwHSP ) reports a parole board agreed this week to release Steven Martinez from Corcoran state prison.

He applied last year to become the first inmate freed under a medical parole law that aims to reduce prison costs. Martinez was turned down as a public safety risk. An appeals court in San Diego rejected that decision last month and ordered his release.

Hell be the 48th inmate paroled under the program.

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Martinez got 157 years-to-life in 1998 for a San Diego attack in which he rammed a womans car, then kidnapped and repeatedly raped her.

He was paralyzed a decade ago when another inmate stabbed him in the neck.